Describes going to the dedication of Lady Bird Johnson Grove, in Redwood National Park, in 1969.
Early clients included Lady Bird Johnson, Nancy Reagan, Joan Kennedy and actresses such as Audrey Hepburn.
For example Lady Bird Johnson was interested in environmentalism and Roslyn Carter with mental health.
She's been covering the funeral of Lady Bird Johnson there and has been kind enough to take a quick phone break just for us.
The first one I was aware of was Lady Bird Johnson.
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Other calls have come from Lady Bird Johnson, the widow of former President Lyndon Johnson, and from actor Charlton Heston, who has announced that he too suffers from Alzheimer's disease.
She still participates in fundraising activities for the New York City public schools, and is joining Laura Bush and Lynda Bird Johnson Robb to help the Library of Congress promote literacy through a new awards program, along with other authors, publishers and scholars.
To put it very plainly, stardom achieved by Bird and Johnson on the collegiate level greatly intensified fan interest in a National Basketball Association that up until then was somewhat subdued.
Jobs was a certifiable game-changer in the way that Bird, Johnson and Carroll certainly were, and his achievements will inform the hiring and pay decisions of professional team GMs and college athletic directors as they consider compensation for persons hired.
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But with Johnson and Bird very much known quantities upon reaching the NBA, and with each having won a championship ring (Johnson in 1980, Bird in 1981) in their first two years, soon enough the NBA was all over prime time network television.
Johnson and Bird were iconic figures throughout the 1980s, when they combined to win eight NBA titles (Johnson with the Los Angeles Lakers, Bird with the Boston Celtics) and resuscitated a league that had become more or less background noise by the end of the '70s.
That's probably why, in the NBA, the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers teams of the '80s, led by Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, respectively, rate higher than the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls clubs of the 1990s.
And that's with the advantage of nostalgia as an added selling tool, thanks to a matchup invoking memories of the Larry Bird-Magic Johnson battles of the 1980s (the three L.A.-Boston finals of the '80s averaged a 30 share, as did the six Michael Jordan-led Bulls series in the '90s).
The backing of Johnson and Bird, who are the "underlying rights holders, " Kirmser said, and have been involved with the creative process.
Daly asked Jordan, arguably the best basketball player to ever play the game, if the Dream Team should have three captains: Johnson, Bird and Jordan.
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Suffice it to say, this won't necessarily be a hyper-critical portrait of the Hall of Famers, though Ponturo said it was clear to him Johnson and Bird wanted the script to be honest and accurate.
Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and a Hall of Fame list of others had that.
It was also the year that Magic Johnson and Larry Bird joined the NBA and it began its staggering ascent over the next three decades.
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That wasn't worth much at first, but thanks to Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and, eventually, Michael Jordan, the NBA exploded in popularity in the 1980s and '90s.
When the NBA began to explode in popularity in the 1980s and 1990s (thanks to Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and, eventually, Michael Jordan), television rights fees escalated in concert.
Magic Johnson and Larry Bird and Isiah Thomas were each reviled by at least a few teammates for their brutal verbal takedowns of lesser players --and almost everyone in their respective locker rooms were lesser players.
For the March Madness television coverage, the company not only released more ads in the same formula, but created a new set, where NBA greats Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul-Jabar and Bill Russell take the role of the kids.
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With no competition from EA Sports yet again this year, things were looking good until the NBA lockout. 2K Sports knew that was coming and focused on NBA legends like Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and Dr. J for the cover as well as new gameplay modes.
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Eleven Hall of Fame players, including Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, David Robinson, Magic Johnson and Charles Barkley, came together to crush international opponents and win Olympic gold in Barcelona, Spain.
Remember Indiana State's Larry Bird tussling with Michigan State's Magic Johnson in the 1979 championship game (which Magic's team won)?
Magic Johnson entered the NBA the same year as Bird, and joined a team that had underperformed for years.
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The idea is to give the production the uptempo feel of a basketball game while covering plenty of material from the pair's first meeting in the 1979 NCAA championship game, to their decade-long rivalry, to Johnson's announcement that he was HIV positive, to Bird's struggles with late-career injuries.
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